The Cromwell public is invited to two workshops on Sunday April 16 to consider the lake edge and foreshore area from the junction to the Butcher Drive car park, and produce designs for how these areas should be used. 

The workshops are to be facilitated by Queenstown organisation Shaping Our Future (SOF). 

“Over the last couple of years, the community has identified what they want from their lake margins,” SOF executive officer John Glover said.

“Now is the time to review the wishlist and see what can be incorporated into this area.” 

Workshop participants will be presented with a summary of what has previously been discussed and determine which facilities could go where on large overhead maps. 

The list includes pontoons, swimming areas, playgrounds, performance areas, interpretation museum outposts, and areas for market stalls. 

John said people in the Cromwell community are best to make these plans because they understand the area, know what will and won’t work, and are here for the long term. 

Lake Dunstan Charitable Trust chair Duncan Duncan Faulkner said: “What the workshops intend to do is to give the community a chance to have their input on what they would like to see developed and created; really it’s a blank canvas at this stage.” 

“We, as a trust, are encouraging people to get involved. The community’s been asking for many years to be heard, so this is an open invite for anyone who wants to get involved,” he said.

Contact Energy is funding the workshop and production for the plan. 

Contact Energy has recently had its plan for managing landscape and visual amenity values along the Kawarau Arm of Lake Dunstan approved by the Otago Regional Council.

The two workshops will be held at the Gate on Sunday April 16, from 2-4pm and 7-9pm.

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